Double Trouble!

Well, it finally happened.  The thing I have been dreading since I found out we were having twins.  The twin stomach virus.  Anyone with children dreads the stomach virus probably more than any other sickness.  With twins, its doubly dreaded!  I should have known something was wrong at swim lessons.  However, previous blogs have demonstrated that I am not the best at figuring out when my kids are sick and when they are just cranky!  I swear, they need a "check engine" light just like a car!  Then moms would know when the "check engine" light came on it was time to go to the doctor, but if they were just being cranky and the light isn't on, its just random baby behavior!  We went to our usual swim lesson and it was very odd.  Caroline did awesome - of course! - Lilah actually had fun and even smiled a couple of times which was a vast improvement over the first lesson when she clung to me and cried the whole time, but Liam screamed and cried the entire lesson!  Not like him at all, but his nap had been interrupted so I chalked it up to being tired.  The evening went as normal as crazy off-schedule swim lesson nights usually go.  The kids ate their dinner and the babies got to watch their new favorite show - water filling the bathtub for their bath.  I don't know why they love it, but it's a highlight of every day!

After bath, the babies were having their bedtime bottle when Liam threw up for the first time.  We got him cleaned up and started praying that it was just from crying so much at swimming or that he ate something off the floor while he was crawling around that made his tummy upset.  I know - way to go mommy hoping the baby ate something yucky off of the floor, but the stomach virus really is one of the worst case scenarios!  We got Liam cleaned up and everyone to bed and as we went to sleep a few hours later we thought we had dodged the bullet!  HA!  At 12:30 Liam woke up crying.  Robert went in and patted him and he laid back down.  He cried again about 12:45.  It was my turn, so I headed to the babies room to try to calm him down.  As soon as I went in the room, the yucky smell hit me and I knew that the stomach virus was here.  We managed to get Liam's yucky sheet off his bed and into the washer in the dark so we didn't wake Lilah up.  We made Liam a little bed of towels in our bed and tried to get some more sleep.  Liam was up and down throwing up for the rest of the night off and on, but no noise from Lilah we were hoping was a good thing.  That morning we were up at the usual time - thank you sweet Caroline - and Liam seemed to be doing a little better.  He was keeping down some Pedialyte and seemed to be pretty happy, all things considered.  Lilah slept late (almost 9:00), woke up very happy and laughing, drank her whole bottle, and started throwing up everywhere!  Caroline was a great little alarm system and took great joy in screaming at the top of her lungs, "Mommy, Daddy, the babies just threw up everywhere - AGAIN!".  Friday was filled with laundry, Pedialyte, naps (for the babies not mommy and daddy), laundry, a migraine for mommy, grocery shopping (thanks to SuperDad who could see the crazy coming out in my eyes and stayed home from work to help!), and more laundry.  It is just shocking to me how much laundry two pukey babies can create!  If we could figure out some way for pukey baby laundry to power our cars, the gas prices wouldn't matter at all!  The rest of the weekend they have been doing better tummy-wise, but still VERY cranky.  They must still be feeling yucky, but I wish they could figure out some sort of medicine to fix the cranky!  Its the hardest time to be a twin mommy when both of your babies aren't feeling well and want mommy to hold them, but there is only one mommy.  We are just praying that Caroline doesn't get sick, that Robert and I stay well, and that the cranky ends soon! 

Caroline was VERY excited to get to spend the night at her Cayah and Ike's house this weekend and has had a blast helping them plant new flowers in the backyard and taking them to Target to find new things that she needs!  She also had fun making banana pudding this week because according to her, she is a "cooker girl"! 

The babies have also figured out how to pull themselves up in their cribs and knock the CD player off of its shelf and screech back and forth to each other, so we lowered the cribs this weekend to try to minimize the trouble they can get into together - I am sure that's wishful thinking!  Here are the co-conspirators checking out the new crib level in Liam's crib!  I am sure they are already planning their next adventure!